Try 'em all! Sometimes I think I hear a difference between them, and then I
don't. Doesn't hurt to install them. While you're at it, there is a HDCD
decoder and a RAM-disk utility. Good clean fun.

From what I've read of the views of coders, there isn't anything wrong with
ASIO or WASAPI. I haven't gone 'ultimate' yet myself, but what I have played
with suggests those guys are not delusional regarding hardware optimization.
My latest DAW is built on a Gigabyte gaming motherboard, which has what they
call a specially-filtered USB buss, inspired by the idea that noise on the
data and power lines changes the sound. Know what? It is very obviously
better. Perhaps similar to having a built-in Audioquest Jitter Bug.

A modestly tricked-out USB cable improved the sound, too. As for $100
Ethernet cables - - prove it to me!

I do hear a consistent difference between playback apps. I've used Jriver
Media Center for some years, for its excellent ripping and tagging
functions, and networking capabilities. It sounds different than Foobar -
smoother. Sometimes that seems less accurate, sometimes more. I guess I've
come down to feeling, after hearing my own work played through both of those
programs and from Samplitude, that MC is more accurate. But it's subtle and
maybe more within the realm of taste than objectivity.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Geek question - is there any way to get Foobar2000
to automatically change to a file's native sample/bitrate in Win7?

That's it, components. So which is best to install? I thought I read
somewhere that ASIO is not favored in the "ultimate file player" crowd, the
guys who optimize laptops for playing digital music files. Never understood
why, above my geek pay grade.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Pultz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Geek question - is there any way to get Foobar2000
to automatically change to a file's native sample/bitrate in Win7?


> Maybe a "component' could be termed a plugin. In
> File>Preferences>Components, you can install support for ASIO, Kernel
> Streaming, and WASAPI. That may be what you're missing. The HiLo 
> probably supports them all, but certainly ASIO. Try installing that 
> and WASAPI support, then under Output, select the Device menu entry 
> that shows the HiLo in one or both interface types. NOT DS! That's the
Windows interface, IIRC.
> It should show at least one of those named for the HiLo, or as a 
> generic USB device.
>
> One way to check this is to play an 88.2 file. Win7 doesn't support 
> it; it will resample or just not work. If you get 88.2 on your 
> converter, it is bypassing the Windows mixer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 10:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Geek question - is there any way to get 
> Foobar2000 to automatically change to a file's native sample/bitrate in
Win7?
>
> Also, is there some parameter deep in the Sound control panel that 
> turns control of this over to the playback software? Sony Soundforge 
> doesn't have this problem with the Lynx HiLo -- it seems designed to 
> take control of all this stuff in the background. Also, Carl are you 
> sure you don't have a Foobar plugin that is controlling this? If so, which
plugin?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Pultz" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 10:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Geek question - is there any way to get 
> Foobar2000 to automatically change to a file's native sample/bitrate in
Win7?
>
>
>> Gee, Tom, that's never been a problem for me. Via USB to Benchmark 
>> DACs, using ASIO, KS, or WASAPI, Foobar will automatically output 
>> native rates and change on the fly (unlike Mac OS). This is with no 
>> other processing plugins in the virtual signal path, which I almost 
>> never use. I confirmed this when I got the DAC2, which indicates 
>> sr/bit-depth. It requires no intervention and has worked that way on 
>> Win7, 8.1, and 10. It doesn't care what the Windows default setting 
>> is, as the Benchmark drivers bypass that internal system. Hardware 
>> interfaces that use Windows native drivers may behave differently.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
>> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 9:58 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Geek question - is there any way to get 
>> Foobar2000 to automatically change to a file's native sample/bitrate in
Win7?
>>
>> I have tried figuring this out on Google and nothing I'm searching 
>> gets me there.
>>
>> I use Foobar2000 as my primary audio player on my Win7 computers in 
>> the studio. Foobar seems to default to the Windows Sound setting for 
>> the actual output sample/bitrate, no matter what is native to the 
>> file. So, if I'm listening to multiple files from the studio, 
>> HDTracks and CDs, I have to keep opening up the Sound control panel 
>> and changing the settings to match the file.
>>
>> Is there any way to make Foobar do this, take control of these 
>> settings and then change them based on the file parameters?
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>>
>>
>
>